That fictional scenario is the best way to gauge its real-world opposite, a scheme whose very name--Bluetooth--appropriately calls to mind the more depressing aspects of dentistry.

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It helps to bear this in mind as the world decides in the coming weeks how to react to the power-sharing agreement the main Palestinian factions have just signed in Mecca (see article).

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For a country still only 5% of the world economy, China's share of mind--the degree to which its economic affairs attract international notice--is outsized.

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"I have a world in my mind, " Valle wrote in an e-mail to one fantasy role-play partner.

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An hour passed before rescue could reach us, although the memory is one of timelessness -- the world had ceased to be, nothing made sense and my mind was trying desperately to process every aspect of what I was experiencing.

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Inspired, Conley went on a mission to understand and develop a systematic approach to happiness and other emotions, travelling the world and conferring with a mind-boggling, interdisciplinary array of experts.

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It was unclear exactly what DP World has in mind for the "entity" to which it will transfer the six port operations--or whether the entity might be simply a U.S. subsidiary of DP World itself.

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Satellite phones may bring to mind military operations (in fact, Iridium supports U.S. installations world-wide), but the stripped down functionality of the inReach SE brings the technology to a price point better suited to adventurous civilian travelers.

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Whatever it is, upcoming first-person-horror title Among the Sleep places you inside the mind and body of a two-year-old who awakens to a nightmarish world of imagination gone horribly wrong.

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